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Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: introduced
Salinity: freshwater
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Toral-Granda pers. comm.
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Bartley, D.M. (comp./ed.), 2006
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Common names from other countries

Tilapia du Nil, Tilapia del Nilo, Тилапия нильская, ... more

Classification / Names Nombres comunes | Sinónimos | Catalog of Fishes(Género, Especie) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Cichliformes (Cichlids, convict blennies) > Cichlidae (Cichlids) > Pseudocrenilabrinae
Etymology: Oreochromis: Latin, aurum = gold + Greek, chromis = a fish, perhaps a perch (Ref. 45335); niloticus: Cancellata = barred, referring to the dark bars on the flanks of the species (Ref. 58535).
More on author: Linnaeus.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecología

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Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Common names from other countries

Classification / Names Nombres comunes | Sinónimos | Catalog of Fishes(Género, Especie) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecología